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Epigenetics and the renaissance of heresy.

Genome - 1 Dec 2003

Varmuza Susannah

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Classic neo-Darwinian theory is predicated on the notion that all heritable phenotypic change is mediated by alterations of the DNA sequence in genomes. However, evidence is accumulating that stably heritable phenotypes can also have an epigenetic basis, lending support to the long-discarded notion of inheritance of acquired traits. As many of the examples of epigenetic inheritance are mediated by position...

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PMID: 14663513
DOI: 10.1139/g03-115

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